Salient Features of Ayurveda

Salient Features of Ayurveda

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Book Specification

Item Code: IDF464
Author: S.C. Dhyani
Publisher: Chaukhambha Publishers
Language: English
Edition: 2004
Pages: 100
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 8.8" X 5.8"
Weight 230 gm

Book Description

CONTENTS
1. Introductory 3
2. Some Important Principles of Ayurveda 4
3. Brilliant past and bright future 6
4. Descent and propagation of Ayurveda on earth 7
5. What is Ayurveda 9
6. The Objective of Ayurveda 10
7. Nature of happy and unhappy life 10
8. Nature of Good and bad life 11
9. Ayurvedic concept of health 11
10. Definition of health 13
11. Wholeistic approach to man 17
12. Evolution of man 18
13. The urges that are not be restrained 19
14. The urges that should be held in restraint 19
15. Avoid over - indulgences 19
16. Avoidable men 20
17. Assossiable men 20
18. Strive in wholesome practices 20
19. Important dietetic regulations 20
20. Code of right conduct 21
21. Don't's 22
22. Ayurvedic concept of disease 22
23. What is Prajnaparadha 23
24. Initial and mental cycle of disease 24
25. Doshas - their psychic functions 25
26. Diagram showing origin of disease 29
27. Origin of Life 33
28. Life started with blue and green Algae 35
29. Evolution of life - evolution of Rasas 38
30. Doshas interlinked through Rasas 38
31. Three Rasas increase one Dosha 39
32. Division of a cell 40
33. Ayurvedic concept of conception 41
34. Signs of life 43
35. The eight censored persons 48
36. The symptoms of corpulence 48
37. The symptoms of Emaciation 49
38. Treatment of corpulence 49
39. Treatment of Emaciation 50
40. Three pillars of health 50
41. About a physician 51
42. Ayurvedic concept of Resistance power 54
43. Seasonal variations and Doshik vitiation 55
44. Ayurveda cares for total personality 57
45. Pharmacological concepts 59
46. Taste thresholds 59
47. Qualities and actions of tastes 60
48. Vipaka 61
49. Gunas 62
50. Veerya 62
51. How the drug acts 65
52. Elective affinity of drugs 67
53. Mode of action 67
54. Three kinds of therapies 68
55. Aetio - pathologenesis of disease 68
56. Samprapti 70
57. Examination of the patient 70
58. Modern laboratory tests should be conducted 72
59. Chikitsa 73
60. Six Types of treatment 75
61. Some important therapies 77
62. Raktavasechana 77
63. Punsavana 78
64. Dahakarma 78
65. Vajeekarana 79
66. Ksharakarma 80
67. Achara Rasayana 81
68. Arista 82
69. Some important single drugs 83
70. Diseases and Ayurvedic drugs 85
71. Summation 94

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